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High Availability and Healthcare Interoperability

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The Road to High Availability

TODAY’S MENU Prepare yourselves for a feast of bullet pointsand diagrams.

Why high availability matters

What we’ve learned so far, and what we’re still learning

How Iguana supports HA

What is HA?

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Why HA matters for Interoperability

Higher costs, lost revenueIT overtime, SLA penalties, unhappy customers.

Patient healthDowntime can endanger lives. Regulatory issues.

Lost productivityTime to fix distracts from working on other business priorities.

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Why HA matters to iNTERFACEWARE

Because our product is enterprise gradeSupporting HA is essential to keeping the trust of our customers.Because it matters to our customersHealth care providers rely on our technology to support their growthService providers are moving to the cloudMore vendors moving services to the cloud … and taking on more responsibility for uptime.

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What we’ve learned so far, and what we are still learning

Deploying

the solutionWhat can we learn from

each successful deployment?

Designing &

developing solutionsHow do we configure Iguana?

What additional tools and features do we need to better

support customers needs?

Discovering

customer needsDo our HA solutions align with business objectives?

What are the most common requirements?

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But what is HA?

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HA is an architecture, not a software feature

Network

Hardware

Applications

Storage

Databases

Power Supply

Web Services

Manual processes

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What is the objective of HA?Ensuring your business never stops functioning.

HA DRHigh AvailabilityAutomated failover of

mission-critical business processes.

Disaster RecoveryManual failover in case of environmental disasters or human error.

BUSINESS CONTINUITY

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How availability is defined

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Why there is a premium on HA solutions

More availability (more “nines”) High

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1. They require more computing resources.2. They require thoughtful planning.3. They require customization.4. They entail complexity.

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How do we prepare for HA?Three methods for planning for HA

Understand your system

Knowing where potential failure can happen is half the

battle.

What is mission critical?

Understand what processes are critical and absolutely require automated failover.

Find the right approach

There is no one-size-fits-all solution for every problem or

business.

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Effective routing

Fault detection

Redundancy

What are the primary strategies for HA

Identify single points

of failure.

Navigates around

failed component.

Knows when a component has failed or is unavailable.

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Why Iguana fits in nicely with HA

Improved deploymentFaster workflow for importing interfaces and mirroring environments.

Flexible APIProgrammatically start and stop interfaces.

Easy installation

You won’t have a lot of downtime for

maintenance or upgrades.

MonitoringHealth of interfaces

easily detected inside and outside

of Iguana.

Integration made easy